Re: Floats???

[robin]

Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> Haven't many of you talked of placing figures inside of floats? My figures
> are simply inserted into the text. What is the advantage of placing my
> figures inside floats? 

It means that LyX (well, LaTeX) works out the best position for the
figure on the page.

> Does it enable me to place a heading for the figure
> and a figure number?

Yes.  Whether and how it's numbered depends on the document class, I
think.



Robin